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Forensic Science: Administration of Justice

Question for Home Office

UIN HL3280, tabled on 21 October 2021

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect that the level of the spend on forensic services has on the outcome of legal cases.

Answered on

4 November 2021

As part of the Home Office’s project to measure the impact of forensic science on the CJS, we have worked with academia to develop an approach to assess the impact of forensic science from crime scene to court, but we have not made an assessment of the effect that the level of the spend on forensic services has on the outcome of legal cases.

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